Dropping A Hired Car At A Different Location

[rulefan]

Sometimes a hire co will want to move an unusual car/vehicle to another location and will be only too happy to let a customer do the job for them. It may be worth asking, even if the vehicle is not the spec you intended to hire.
It happens most on the less popular long distance drives.

A good way of touring the US cheaply is to offer to take a car to wherever they want it to be not to where you want to go. They will usually pay you.

 

[3offTheTee]

Do not think it will work in your case but if you are going against the general flow.

Example in New Zealand it is the norm to take a car in the Notth Island from Auckland, where the majority of flights arrive and drop off near Wellington. If you were going the other way the charge would be minimal or none existent.

 

[Val]

I have 2 rentals in the US for September and both are collect at A and drop at B and I'm not being charged any extra and this is not a business rental.

Where are you collecting and dropping and who are you using?

 

[Crazyface]

I'm just looking at every company I can find, and can't find any that don't charge for this. Please tell me who you are using !!!!

 

[Val]

I'm just looking at every company I can find, and can't find any that don't charge for this. Please tell me who you are using !!!!

Alamo, im collecting in Miami the dropping in Orlando on 1 booking. 2nd booking is the opposite, collect Orlando and drop Miami. The booking's arent connected in anyway as they were booked at different times so Alamo wouldn't have known they were the same person.

 

[Crazyface]

This might be because they are in the same state. Some rental firms allow this. We're going from Houston to Nashville.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Has anyone found a way round the charge when you hire a car from one place and then drop it off at another in the USA?

From what I remember, we got charged about $300 when we picked the car up in New Orleans and dropped it off in Orlando. The charge was supposedly because they were in different states. Pretty sure that when we picked the car up in Orlando and dropped it off in Fort Lauderdale there wasn't a charge as they were in the same state.

 

[Val]

This might be because they are in the same state. Some rental firms allow this. We're going from Houston to Nashville.

Thats why I asked where your rental was, some renters wont even let you leave the rental state never mind drop the car in another state.

I think you are on to plums unfortunately.

 

[Foxholer]

Do not think it will work in your case but if you are going against the general flow.

Example in New Zealand it is the norm to take a car in the Notth Island from Auckland, where the majority of flights arrive and drop off near Wellington. If you were going the other way the charge would be minimal or none existent.

I used to travel between Wellington (where I lived) and Auckland quite often, and actually got paid to take a rental up! A guy I work with has visited 42 US States doing similar there a while go!